Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Having as many planes as required for complete symmetry in a given crystal system.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In mineralogy, having all the similar edges or angles similarly replaced, as a crystal.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Crystallog.) Having all the planes required by complete symmetry, -- in opposition to hemihedral.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective of a crystal Having as many plane faces as needed for the highest degree of symmetry in its system

Etymologies

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From holo- + Ancient Greek ἕδρα (hedra, "seat").

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